Isn't MLM The Same As Pyramid Selling?

There are several successful companies involved in network marketing looking for help that it should not be hard to find a home based business opportunity network marketing. However, before you start looking you may want a better understanding of what network marketing is all about and how it compares to pyramid schemes.
There is a vast difference between pyramid schemes and network marketing in that pyramids schemes can only grow so far until they collapse and once they do, for everyone who loses money, someone makes money. In its simplicity, a person gives you a dollar with the promise they will get their money back when they convince two or three people to give them a dollar. They get to keep half of whatever they collect and pass the rest on to you as a reward for showing them how to get money from people with no promise of anything in return except the knowledge of how to ask their friends and relatives for money.
Soon, the person who started this pyramid has a ton a of money and the last person in is out his dollar. However, people did not start these schemes for change. They went for big money with a minimum investment typically being $500 or more. Not only are some people going to lose a lot of money, these schemes are illegal in most states.
Network marketing involves the sale of legitimate products or services by a legitimate network of dealers and usually has no large initial investment and in addition to being authorized to sell the product or service, dealers are encouraged to add to their own sales staff and retain a percentage of the sales of those folks for their efforts in training them.
Whether it is door-to-door vitamin sales or internet advertising there is a legitimate network marketing opportunity that can be operated as a home based business in which you can believe and successfully make money. It is just a matter of finding the right one for you. Caution should be used, however as every once in awhile a pyramid scheme pops up under the disguise of network marketing with the push on to recruit others of a paid opportunity to earn money by recruit others and very little is said about the product or service being offered. Additional scrutiny may be warranted is more emphasis is placed on recruiting dealers, who have to pay a fee in order to make money from their recruits, and very little is said about the product, if it even exists.